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Thursday, February 2, 2012

If you've been to a show recently you've noticed and probably asked
Where's Dutch? In case you don't know, Dutch has been our spiritual
leader and guitar player for the last 13 years and 12-1400 shows.

Dutch has been traveling for the last month and a half.

Anydoodles, it's very difficult for me to write the following sentence but...

For the foreseeable future Dutch will not be playing with us.

He's
alright. We're all alright. We love him very much and perhaps he'll come
back in to the fold. Most bands break up after a year or 2. We've made
it 13. And perhaps still more to come. We'll see what the future holds.

Until
then we wish him nothing but the best of love and happiness. And we
soldier on without his tasteful, genre-twisting, amazing guitar playing
and ridiculously loving & hilarious personality. Some how. Some
way.

Capably filling in for him in his stead have been alternately the
wickedly inspiring Josh Norton and the incomparable Woody Aplanalp.
Incapably filling in for him has also been me.